Sketch Theater artist At the age of 23, Petre Otskheli has already staged three cult performances, including Uriel A'Costa. At the age of 29, he won f irst prize in a competition organized by Konstantin Stanislavsky for his sketches by Giuseppe Verdi “Rigoletto”, and the same year at the Theater Artists Competition in London, his sketches were awarded by a gold medal. Exactly the same year that two plays were staged at the Small Theater in Moscow, including Friedrich Schiller's "Infidelity and Love", Petre Otskheli was captured, accused of counter-revolutionary, nationalist activities and sentenced to death.